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Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$347k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$126,750
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$6.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$347k12%
FY202312$340k8%
FY202217$426k35%
FY202115$384k20%
FY202021$368k48%
FY201914$321k14%
FY201820$360k20%
FY201717$323kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$1.2MReligion$530kPublic Safety & Disaster$449kYouth Development$239kRecreation & Sports$158kEducation$82kHuman Services$55kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Central Sight Services Inc$1,213,43082%
James V Brown Library$46,90681%
Firetree Place$38,50081%
Camp Susque Inc$38,00081%
New Covenant Christian Church$35,5003n/a
Williamsport Area Junior Golf$20,0003n/a
United Churches of Lycoming County$15,0002n/a
Hope Enterprises Inc$12,25010%
Camp Cadet$12,00047%
Christ Community Worship Center Inc$10,2691n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
North Central Sight Services Inc$1,213,43082%
James V Brown Library$46,90681%
Firetree Place$38,50081%
Camp Susque Inc$38,00081%
New Covenant Christian Church$35,5003n/a
Williamsport Area Junior Golf$20,0003n/a
United Churches of Lycoming County$15,0002n/a
Hope Enterprises Inc$12,25010%
Camp Cadet$12,00047%
Christ Community Worship Center Inc$10,2691n/a
Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity Inc$10,00012%
Susquehanna Health Foundation$10,00011%
Dwell - Lycoming County$10,00021%
Yellow Wolf Advocacy Project$9,7502n/a
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$5,00010%
Community Theatre League Inc$4,0001n/a
Nicholas Wolff Foundationinc$2,40010%
Expectations Womens Center$2,40010%
The New Love Center$2,0001n/a

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorth Central Sight Services Inc: $1,213,430 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetJames V Brown Library: $46,906 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetFiretree Place: $38,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCamp Susque Inc: $38,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHope Enterprises Inc: $12,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Cadet: $12,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetGreater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSusquehanna Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDwell - Lycoming County: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNicholas Wolff Foundationinc: $2,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetExpectations Womens Center: $2,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

First Community Foundation Partnership of PennsylvaniaPA32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Abram M Snyder Foundation Inc · Ppl Foundation · The 1994 Charles B Degenstein Fdn · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc

How much does Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc give?
Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $346,824 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (43%), Religion (18%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%).
Who are Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Central Sight Services Inc ($1.2M), James V Brown Library ($47k), Firetree Place ($39k).
Does Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania, Abram M Snyder Foundation Inc, Ppl Foundation.
Where is Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc based?
Harry Plankenhorn Foundation Inc is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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